Freedom in One Lesson

Contents

Foreword by Thomas J. DiLorenzo

Introduction

1. Every Person Should Be Free

2. A Confession of Faith

3. Twenty Facets of Freedom

4. Dupes of a Politically Managed Glossary

5. The Problem with “Left versus Right”

6. The Genesis of Extremism

7. Good Government

8. How Collectivism Makes Us Look Stupid

9. Libertarian Socialism

10. Thanksgiving and the Essence of Americanism

11. Freedom and the Fate of Nations

12. Liberation on the Subject of Freedom

13. Freedom: A New Vision, Not Old Hat

14. I Prefer Security to Freedom

15. Ideal Candidates versus Ideal Government

16. Promises We Do and Do Not Live By

17. How Not to Be Owned

18. The Roots of Concord and Discord

19. Harmonizing to Each His Own

20. Preemption: Legal Thievery

21. How Socialism Harms All Individuals

22. A Cliché of Socialism: Under Public Ownership, We the People Own It

23. Unscrambling Socialism

24. The Good within Our Reach

25. Justice versus Social Justice

26. Social Reformers as Keepers of the Peace

27. The Role of Rules

28. Self-Reform, Not Reformed Coercion

29. Natural Aristocracy as the Cure for Kakistocracy

30. Elements of Libertarian Leadership

31. Go Where the Action Is

32. Smarter Talk Is Smarter Action

33. What Should Be Prohibited?

34. To Alleviate Misfortune

35. The Free Market Ignores the Poor

36. Coping with Poverty

37. Resisting the Temptation of Problems beyond Our Powers

38. The Macro Malady

39. Exalting the Common Good

40. Leave It to the Free Market

41. Leaving behind the Labor Theory of Value

42. Getting to Know Beans about Labor

43. There Is No Moral Right to Strike

44. Bungling Firemen

45. How to Be a Benefactor—Use the Invisible Hand

46. Look to the Stars

47. To Avarice No Sanction

48. From “I Don’t Know” to “I, Pencil”

49. Distinguishing Chaos from Incomprehensible Order

50. The More Complex the Society, the Less Government Control We Need

51. The Mystery of Social Order

52. Complexity and Consumer Interest

53. Fear of Freedom or Trusting Yourself

54. Living by a Premise

55. Individual Rights, Freedom, and the Better World

56. The Two Commandments

57. Violence, Liberty, and Love

58. Leonard Read’s Conscience on the Battlefield

59. Amoral Markets versus Immoral Coercion

60. Seeing the Light on Looting

61. What Should Government Do?

62. The Something-for-Nothing Syndrome

63. Follow Read’s Pattern

64. Willing or Unwilling?

65. Are Businesses Entitled to a Fair Profit?

66. The Coming Renaissance

67. The Love of Liberty and the Limitation of Government

68. The Case against Name-Calling

69. Worrycrats

70. Common Justice, Not Equality

71. The Bloom Preexists in the Seed

72. Reflections on America’s Founding Documents

73. Progress Depends on Freedom

74. How to Decontrol

75. Nuclear Giants and Ethical Infants

76. Know-It-All-ness

77. Wishes and Rights

78. Inhibiting Infractions of the Moral Law, Not Promoting Them

79. Compromise or Surrender?

80. A Better Way to “Buy American”

81. Why Not Private Mail Delivery?

82. On Thinking for Self

83. On That Day Began Lies

84. Do Not Vote in the Absence of Integrity

85. Obeying Read’s Law

86. Our Politicians Would Probably Be Better If We Picked Them by Lot

87. Justice Delayed Is Justice Denied

88. Our Self-Interest in a Good Society

89. Open versus Closed Minds

90. The Love of Liberty

91. Count Our Blessings, Not Miseries

92. Thank God for the Mess We’re In

93. Advancing Freedom in Freedom

94. Look to the Miracle!

95. How to Be like Socrates

96. Ends, Means, and Leonard Read

97. To Abdicate or Not

References

Index